Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. ²It does not pardon sins and make them real. ³It sees there was no sin. ⁴And in that view are all your sins forgiven. ⁵What is sin, except a false idea about God’s Son? ⁶Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. ⁷What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. ²The mind is closed, and will not be released.
In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. ³Distortion is its purpose…
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. ²It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. ³It merely looks, and waits, and judges not. …he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.1.1:1–2:2;3:2-3;4:1-3,5)
The unforgiving ego mind diligently hangs on to the past. It judges the present based on these memories. But the past is gone; it does not exist now. So the ego’s judgments are always unfounded and meaningless. Only our belief in the ego and its carefully guarded past keeps our mind closed to the recognition that only the changelessness of God’s Love is real.
The Course is teaching us to open our minds to the possibility that our judgments may be wrong. The Holy Spirit’s vision teaches us to see the reality of Love in our brothers and learn of Love’s reality in us. In the Light of Love we see that our true Self, which is shared with every brother, is invulnerable. It shares the changelessness of God’ Love being forever united with our Creator.
The ego always attempts to teach that harm and loss are real. We need the Light of Holy Spirit’s vision to dispel these dark, mistaken beliefs. In this Light, we forgive and awaken to the truth that we are Love and nothing else.
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